Aakash Chopra

Insight Edge |

IPL 5 may not have garnered the same TRP as the first three seasons but the cricket has been very entertaining thus far. It's been ...
12:27 PM, Apr 26, 2012

Kajal Iyer

Dextra Aria |

Mumbai as a city has various surprises. It is the city of dreams, it is where people come to live the life of their dreams. ...
08:55 PM, Apr 19, 2012

E R Ramachandran

Cricket Bytes |

Young left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem's confidence would have soared sky high when he helped his team Delhi Daredevils skittle Harbhajan Singh's Mumbai Indians for 92, ...
10:38 AM, Apr 19, 2012

Tanuj Khosla

Straight Talk |

Most people I meet generally have two kinds of queries regarding the commercial aspects of IPL. Some wonder how the franchises, which dole out millions ...
09:14 AM, Apr 12, 2012

Vivian Fernandes

Espresso Economics |

Indians are big losers because the Indian Railways lack drive, ambition and imagination. How? Delhi and Mumbai (1,380 km) are about as distant as Beijing ...
04:22 PM, Mar 29, 2012

Kajal Iyer

Dextra Aria |

Most of us in Mumbai had hoped for a quiet New Year after an eventful news year. But along came Anna. In the ...
09:06 PM, Dec 23, 2011

Kajal Iyer

Dextra Aria |

How does one identify grief? Is it the number of cigarettes someone is smoking, the compulsive checking of messages on the phone? Is it the ...
11:56 PM, Nov 03, 2011

Ashwin Sanghi

Chanakya's Chant |

Friends, it's the tenth week of Chanakya's Chant and Panditji is here once again with his thoughts, observations and witticisms. This week's chant is a ...
03:44 PM, Oct 07, 2011

Madhuri Banerjee

The Chastity Belt |

1. Time = Distance x Potholes: No matter how fast you go, which short cut you take, and how much Power fuel you put in ...
05:21 PM, Aug 17, 2011

Jhinuk Sen

Mostly Harmless |

Twitter saved lives in the tragic moments after the Mumbai blasts last month and Facebook gave a platform to the Egypt-Libya uprisings. Blackberry Messengers seems ...
06:51 PM, Aug 11, 2011

Tuhin A Sinha

Unapologetically Right |

Digvijaya Singh's nefarious statements are as worrisome as his boss Rahul Gandhi's silence over them. Is Singh executing a script? In 2003, as Madhya ...
12:47 PM, Jul 19, 2011

Shiv Visvanathan

Excess Baggage |

There is an unfairness to news we must recognize. A murder in Coimbatore, no matter how dramatic, loses in intensity to a bomb blast in ...
12:47 PM, Jul 18, 2011

Piya Hingorani

Tickler on the Roof |

Warning: This piece is a lighter take on a day of our life! "Theek se bolo" is the first thing I hear when ...
06:06 PM, May 30, 2011

Priyarag Verma

Reverse Sweep |

Osama bin Laden is dead, the US has achieved what it set out to after 9/11 and Pakistan is red-faced that the world's most wanted ...
02:09 PM, May 06, 2011

Pragati Ratti

Sanguine Symphony |

On Saturday, April 2, 2011, a new glorious page got added to the book of Indian history, or I'd rather say, a new book itself ...
07:18 PM, Apr 04, 2011

Pragati Ratti

Sanguine Symphony |

Notions and assumptions may not always prove right. That is what I thought when I got my first sight of Mumbai - the city of ...
07:44 PM, Mar 15, 2011

Raksha Shetty

On the rocks |

The special court instituted inside Arthur Road Jail to conduct a trial for terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab - captured on camera and by scores of ...
10:12 AM, Feb 07, 2011

Rahul Fernandes

Hack Of All Trades |

My tryst with the Mumbai Marathon began in 2005, a few months after I first came to the City of Dreams. Since then I've done ...
08:19 PM, Jan 17, 2011

Sharadiya Dasgupta

Fashion Flaneur |

Calcutta and Bombay. One has been my home for nine years now and the other my hideout whenever I want to escape the overbearing familiarity ...
01:51 PM, Jan 07, 2011

Bahar Dutt

Beasts in my Belfry |

Pushing for news stories in a mainstream news channel or newspaper can have its challenges.The green cause is often seen as expendable. And why blame ...
04:14 PM, Aug 19, 2010